Understanding transformation through personal stories
It has been argued that narrating human experiences is essentially a structure for meaning-making (Bruner 1986; Polkinghorne 1988). The conference set out to achieve this by creating a space for participant’s narrating and sharing experience of transformation and education. By way of narrating and interpreting personal experiences of learning and transformation, participants were able to unify their diverse experiences and encounters and fuse them into new insights and new understanding (Gadamer 1977).
Speakers and participants' personal stories addressed many diverse asepcts of education and learning. From stories, groups worked together to create both individual and collective theorising of transformative education.